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Pride and Prejudice.
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Pride and Prejudice. With a Preface by George Saintsbury and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson.

Publication details: George Allen,[1894,]

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The very first edition of the text to be illustrated throughout; though the Large Paper issue eschews the famous 'Peacock' design to the cover for plain cloth, it is scarcer than its slightly smaller counterpart.

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FIRST 'LARGE PAPER' THOMSON EDITION, frontispiece (tissue-guarded) and line-drawings throughout by Hugh Thomson, with his decorated initials and headpieces to each chapter, pp. xxvii, 476, crown 8vo, original dark blue-green cloth, a small faint waterstan at the head of both boards, a tiny amount of wear at tips, the backstrip with printed label (the lettering faded and reapplied neatly in manuscript), lean to spine, edges untrimmed, contemporary ownership inscription to flyleaf, very good

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